Financial planning

Wall Street Horizon said it will send dates and date changes “within 1,000 milliseconds” of announcement. Deutsche Boerse units extend pooling market to short-term funding. New York Portfolio Clearing launched a Portfolio Risk Interactive Margin Estimator. Credit Suisse releases a “calendar roll” algorithm for fixed-income trading. LCH.Clearnet gets a “nonobjection” to its foreign exchange clearing plan.

The consolidated audit trail of orders placed and matched on the nation’s stock markets should cost a ‘fraction’ of what the SEC has estimated, according to a financial data expert and author speaking at TradeTech 2012 conference in New York.

It’s an advisor’s dream: Having customers as devoted and loyal as the adoring fans at a Lady Gaga concert. The customers would follow the advisor from bank to bank or even to a different channel in the same way that rock star groupies follow their favorite performers. Building that kind of loyalty, of course, isn’t easy. It takes time and perseverance. Rick Rummage, founder and CEO of the career-consulting firm The Rummage Group, has five tips for advisors who want to build a strong following among their customers. Here’s how they can achieve the advisor equivalent of rock star status.

Bill Gross and his team of bond specialists at Pacific Investment Management Company built the Total Return Fund into the world’s largest mutual fund, with more than a quarter-billion dollars in assets. Can he (and they) repeat the trick, with a Total Return exchange-traded fund?

It can be challenging - but enjoyable - advising those who are used to giving advice themselves.

Here’s an interactive slide show highlighting the 5 worst-performing Dow component stocks for February 2012.

Here’s an interactive slide show highlighting the 5 best-performing Dow component stocks for February 2012.

Nasdaq OMX Group said it entered into a new five-year employment agreement with Robert Greifeld, its chief executive officer.

Genworth Financial Wealth Management has hired the former executive director of global asset management at UBS to the post of strategic accounts director with a focus on institutional clients.

Financial planner Ed Guanill is joining author and RIA Keith Springer at his Sacramento, Calif.-based firm, Springer Financial Advisors.

The SEC could be hunkered down conducting cost-benefit analyses on each new rule-making it undertakes, including the scores coming out of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act.

Here's a slideshow highlighting the top seven investing advice books on Amazon, sorted by reader reviews.

Here are acronyms you will need to keep track of as clearing of what can be considered exchange-traded swaps starts up.

For bank reps looking to advance their careers, there’s no better news than a promotion or a job offer that’s too good to refuse. Here’s a sampling of bank reps who were either promoted or moved to new organizations to assume roles of greater responsibility from January 25 to February 9 of this year.

Credit Suisse said its Wealth Management clients contributed net new assets of $4.4 billion in the fourth quarter, even as its investment banking business took a steep plunge that led to a loss for the company as a whole.

The seven hedge fund benchmark indexes operated by alternative investment manager IndexIQ on average rose more than 3% in January, according to January 2012 performance data released by the firm.

J.P. Morgan had a product up its sleeve for its broker-dealers on Aug. 4. That was the date it put the servicing of more than one million accounts onto a new broker-dealer platform, known as Morgan Communications or MORCOM. The online system was to serve both retail and institutional brokers.

Sequentially, however, revenue in the Americas was down 5 percent. In the fourth quarter, the unit reported a pre-tax profit of $125 million. In the third quarter, the profit was $165 million.

John Goodman's lawyer states that the adoption was done to protect Goodman's children, not to shield assets from the family of the slain driver who is suing him. While Goodman, of Palm Beach, has been bashed across the country for his legal maneuver, it actually makes sense from a probate law perspective.

The largest information industry transaction by private equity players was the purchase of GoDaddy. Com for $2.25 billion, according to investment bankers Berkery Noyes. Here's what was hot.